Newport (Pleistocene to of the United States)
Where: Giles County, Virginia (37.4° N, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 80.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Eshelman and F. Grady. 1986. Quaternary vertebrate localities of Virginia and their avian and mammalian fauna. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Publication 75:43-70 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 104684: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon | |
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Mephitis mephitis Schreber 1776 striped skunk | |
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Sylvilagus floridanus Allen 1890 eastern cottontail | |
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Castor canadensis Kuhl 1820 American beaver | |
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Didelphis virginiana Kerr 1792 Virginia opossum | |